It means he’s in Canada.
Oh. Let me guess who is his roommate.
Yep, I literally meant “literally.” 
Though I don’t think it needs to be a complete inability to make sounds. Aphasia would also work.
This new article, written by apparently ex-CIA foreign policy expert (and spy novelist) Claire Berlinski may have a bit too much of a neocon tinge for some here, but it makes what could be the ultimate case for the graveyard theory:
Paywalled.
Indeed. Paraphrasing Robin Williams on Canada:
You are the kindest country in the world. You are like a really nice apartment over a meth lab.
I don’t get where you’re coming from with this. No one here that I see thinks it’s impossible that Trump can win, and we all fear that possibility.
More importantly, things are already fucked. One of our major political parties has become a fascist insurgency that is completely untethered to reality. When they’re in power, they fuck things up; when they’re not, they obstruct.
Christianity has died in the US (and I would say around the world), becoming a cult of hatred of neighbor and aggrandizing of its own authoritarian tribe.
Take away Trump, and these dumb mutherfuckers aren’t just going to go away. We have a cultural and political wreck that will take a generation to repair–maybe longer.
We’re in the grave already, buddy, just trying to dig our way out.
By the way, my friend is married to a Canadian, and it seems that you have your own issues. He said a lot of Canadians follow US politics more than their own, and his father-in-law is an idiot Trumper himself. Perhaps there is one or more layers of insulation in place right now that prevent your country from going full idiot like our own, but I don’t think that complacency is in order. This is, after all, a global infection of evil and stupid. Look at the UK (Brexit), Hungary, Israel, El Salvador, Argentina, Brazil, the Philippines, and many European countries with right-wing, authoritarian-leaning leaders.
I agree with pretty much everything in your post above.
However, (looking at the OP), Trump IS going to be the Republican party nominee, and making up imaginary scenarios where this is not going to happen does not help with anything.
Make plans to fight the election. Get out the vote. Make sure he does not get within spitting distance of the presidency again. This is step one to solving the problems.
Aeschines, i see what you mean about American apathy about politics, even this year. I know people in California who hate Trump yet neglected to vote. No amount of my laying it on them has moved them. It’s crazy because they each got an absentee ballot automatically in the mail but neglected to mail it. My profanity here would be too shocking for this thread.
At the expense of a hijack I’d say this is an exaggeration. Certainly there are loud and frightening groups in the US who call themselves Christian. And who must be stopped from gaining more power.
It was speculation for the point of an interesting conversation. Saying it “doesn’t help” implies it’s actually counterproductive, which I don’t think is the case. We are all committed to preventing this bastard winning.
I would say my chances of being correct are about even. On the plus side, Trump is deteriorating at a rapid pace.
On the negative side, I didn’t expect such massive, complete, craven, and early capitulation to this criminal on the part of the whole GOP. The plus side of that negative is that, when they lose–and they will–they are all going right down the fucking jakes with him.
You are preaching to the choir–of which you are not a member! 
Ha ha!
Think of me as a visiting minister from a far away congregation.
Some of my network haven’t voted because they moved in from out of state and haven’t reupped their driver’s licenses. I’ll bet the thousand people on this website each know someone like that and could ask them to do that and register to vote while they’re doing so. To some people the two actions are related.
It’s a double death, as overall church attendance is way down from a decade ago while what remains has been radicalized. This radicalization and Trump worship further discredits the religion, continuing the spiral. It’s bad.
Heheh.
Sad. If they’re “Gen Z,” here’s a discussion on that:
Who is “they”? because Trump is in control of everything now. There is nobody around that can “hide” him if he doesn’t want to hide.
I think it’s hard to motivate people to vote when their vote doesn’t matter. California is going to go for the Democratic nominee no matter what. There really isn’t a ton of incentive for a person that isn’t that into politics to be interested enough to vote in a situation like that. It is reason number 600 or so why the electoral college should be abolished.
Exactly. I tell my RW acquaintances that, in the 2020 election, the state with the most votes for Trump was California. Of course they don’t believe me, even when I show them the official figures.
“They” of course refers to Republicans in general and specifically the people within, and running, the Trump campaign. But it looks like you understood that.
That said I actually do agree with you. I briefly considered Trump’s campaign to be ran in the way traditional presidential campaigns would be ran if the nominee were suddenly to come down with a serious medical/mental illness during campaign season and everyone panicked. You’re right though, it doesn’t matter how bad his mental condition gets if Trump wants to run his campaign directly into a brick wall there’s nothing in the Republican party that’s going to be able to stop him even if they wanted to. That’s a good point.